“Selfie自拍”成牛津词典2013年度热词

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　　Judy Pearsall explained its evolution: "The hashtag #selfie appeared on the photo-sharing website Flickr as early as 2004, but usage wasn't widespread until around 2012.

　　《牛津词典》编辑部主任朱迪·皮尔索尔说：“在牛津词典语言研究项目中，我们每月都会搜集15万个当下人们正在使用的英语词汇，在这个过程中我们发现selfie(自拍)一词的使用率在2013年度中显示出惊人的上升趋势，由此我们决定将这个词选为年度词汇。”

　　1. My homework was too boring, so I took a selfie and posted it to tumblr。做作业太无趣了，所以我拍了一张自拍照、发布到了Tumblr网上。

　　“早先人们使用这一词的时候，通常单词以-y结尾，但后来以-ie结尾的拼写方式使用频率更高，于是就成为了公认的拼写方式。澳式英语特别喜欢使用以-ie为后缀的词汇……这也证明了selfie这个词是从澳大利亚起源的。”

“Selfie自拍”成牛津词典2013年度热词

　　2. My friend takes a lot of selfies and won't hang out with people hotter than her。我的一个朋友很喜欢自拍，而且不跟长得比自己好看的人一起玩。

　　朱迪·皮尔索尔解释了这个词的进化史：“#selfie(#自拍)作为一种网上照片分享标签，2004年就在Flickr网上出现了，但直到2012年这个词才开始被广泛使用。”

　　The word can be traced back to a post on anAustralian online forum in 2002: "Um, drunk at a party, I tripped ofer[sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second)on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottomlip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie."这个词的使用起源，可以追溯到2002年有人在澳大利亚某论坛上上传的一张照片，上传者这样写道：“唔，在派对上喝醉了，我绊了一跤，嘴唇先着地(紧接着上齿着地)，磕到了楼梯的台阶上。我的下唇磕出了一个直径约1厘米的洞。不好意思照片有点糊，这是一张自拍照。”

　　It has since produced an array of spinoffs,including helfie (hairstyle self)， welfie (workout selfie)， drelfie(drunken selfie)， and even bookshelfie – a snap taken for the purposesof literary self-promotion。随着这个词的走红，人们也创造了一系列相关的衍生词，如helfie“发型自拍”、welfie“健身自拍”、drelfie“醉后自拍” 甚至 bookshelfie“书柜自拍”——即专门为了标榜自己的学识而自拍的照片。

　　Selfie(自拍)—— 指的是“人们为自己拍的照片，通常指人们用智能手机或电脑摄像头拍摄然后上传到社交网站上的照片” ——刚被《牛津词典》编辑评为2013年度词汇，在过去12个月里，它的使用频率上涨了170倍。

　　Selfie – "a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken witha smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website" – hasbeen named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries editors, after thefrequency of its usage increased by 17,000% over the past 12 months。

　　selfie 例句：

“Selfie自拍”成牛津词典2013年度热词

　　Editorial director Judy Pearsall said: "Usingthe Oxford Dictionaries language research programme, which collectsaround 150m words of current English in use each month, we can see a phenomenal upward trend in the use of selfie in 2013, and this helped to cement its selection."

　　"In early examples, the word was oftenspelled with a -y, but the -ie form is more common today and has becomethe accepted spelling. The use of the diminutive -ie suffix is notable, as it helps to turn an essentially narcissistic enterpriseinto something rather more endearing. Australian English has somethingof a penchant for -ie words … so this helps to support the evidence for selfie having originated in Australia."

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